“The New Reality”
2018-2019 Porsche "Young Chinese Artists of the Year" Winner Exhibition
Exhibition Duration: 2020.9.11 - 9.20
Artists: Chen Baoyang, Liu Wa, Liu Xinyi, Miao Ying
Venue: iag, TX Huaihai, No. 523 Middle Huaihai Rd., Shanghai
Exhibition view, "The New Reality" — 2018-2019 Porsche "Young Chinese Artist of the Year" Winner Exhibition, TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2020, Photo courtesy of TX HuaihaiMadeIn Gallery artists Liu Wa and Miao Ying participate in "The New Reality" — 2018-2019 Porsche “Chinese Young Artists of the Year” Winner Exhibition, respectively presenting Moon Milk (2019), 2020 Got Me Like (2020), and Aphasia (2019). Spotlighting the artists’ personal insights and thoughts, these pieces inspire the public to reflect on the society and their internal status against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Liu Wa, 2020 Got Me Like, 2020, Multi-channel video installation, 9'00"
Exhibition view, "The New Reality", TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2020, Photo courtesy of TX Huaihai
Liu Wa, 2020 Got Me Like, 2020, Multi-channel video installation, 9'00"
As COVID-19 speeds around the world and continues to shut down more cities, people begin to consume Internet culture in order to escape the apocalyptic anxiety in 2020, allowing Internet memes to go viral across the globe. Built upon social media, 2020 Got Me Like merges everyday sentiments with classical movie scenes, and incorporates the artist’s footage during protests, turning memes into public commentary and political satire. In this eventful year, meme does more than hijacking and decontextualizing meanings, it has become a form of silent revolt against the absurd.
Liu Wa, Moon Milk, 2019, Single-channel video installation, 8'20"
Exhibition view, "The New Reality", TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2020, Photo courtesy of TX Huaihai
Moon Milk starts with a dream under anesthesia during neurosurgery and develops into a satirical critique on industrialization and gentrification campaign, which is materialized in a series of sculptural props for the video. The work interlaces the medical documentary of craniotomy and the whimsical narrative in Italo Calvino’s book “Cosmicomics,” drawing analogy between the surgical removal of brain tumor and the imaginary ritual of purifying the contaminated Moon milk. Through Italian and Chinese narrations, this work interweaves dream and reality, opening up new imagination on human agency that transcends the boundary between physical and nonphysical.
Liu Wa (b.1994) is an artist who explores the subjectivity and limitation of human perception through interactive installation, moving image, and painting. She holds a BA in Anthropology and a BA in Art from Yale University. She currently works in Beijing and New York. Through technological approaches, neuroscience in particular, she creates visual pathways between the abstract emotions of the audience and the physical environment. In the current age of technology, her pluralistic practices seek to grapple with humanist topics, such as self-awareness and agency, exploring the interdependence between mentality and physicality. Liu’s works have been globally exhibited and collected by prestigious museums and galleries. She was selected for the “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list” in 2019.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Solo project “Moon Milk”, ART021, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Glimpse”, Asia Now, Paris, France, 2019; Glimpse: “A Passing Look”, Sabsay Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018; “Still”, Arts First Festival, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2017; “Tree of Life”, performance, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 2015. Selected group exhibitions include: “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year”, Beijing Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China, 2019; “The 6th Guangzhou Triennial — As We May Think”, Feedforward, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2018; “After Sunset”, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France, 2018; “Heart of the Tin Man”, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China, 2017; “I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration”, Qiao Space & Tank Project Space, Shanghai, China, 2017; “Art Utopia”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2016; “Fantastic Art China”, Javits Convention Center, New York, USA, 2016.
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Further reading: MadeIn Gallery | Liu Wa, Pu Yingwei, and Su Yu-Xin Joint Exhibition in 2020
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Miao Ying
Miao Ying, Aphasia, 2019, Three-channel video installation, 5'27"Exhibition view, "The New Reality", TX Huaihai, Shanghai, 2020, Photo courtesy of TX Huaihai
Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. In this video, the lyrics of the music comes from using Machine Learning text generation neural networks. The artist and her research team from Cornell University used a program trained to simulate writing styles of humans, which had successfully generated text in the style of Shakespeare, to generate their own texts.
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Miao Ying, Aphasia, 2019, Three-channel video installation, 5'27"
The artists and her researchers then took text data from the medieval papal bulls from popes, indulgence from prayers book, Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Animal farm (George Orwell), books of animal husbandry, Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann), Chinese online fictions (in the popular style of “Bossy, boss loves me”), and lyrics from R&B songs and Kanye West. Each text chosen by the artist represents a particular ideology. Completely generated by computer, those different blending of texts and ideologies achieves a unique style of writing.
Miao Ying (b.1985) was born in Shanghai, China. She holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and a BFA in New Media Arts from China Academy of Fine Arts. She resides in New York and Shanghai.
Her work highlights the attempts to discuss mainstream technology and contemporary consciousness and its impact on our daily lives, along with the new modes of politics, aesthetics and consciousness created during the representation of reality through technology. She deliberately applies a thread of humor to her works and addresses her Stockholm Syndrome relationship with cultural and socio-political power, such as censorship and self-censorship, lifestyle branding and ideologies in general.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include: “Hardcore Digital Detox”, M+ Museum, HK, 2018; “Stones From Other Hills”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2018; “Miao Ying: Chinternet Plus”, First Look: New Art Online, New Museum, New York, 2016; “Content Aware”, MadeIn Gallery, 2016, “Holding a Kitchen Knife to Cut the Internet Cable”, Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015. She has also shown her works at 2018-2019 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Nominees’ Exhibition, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, 2019; “NON-ALIGNED NETWORKS”, Valletta Contemporary, Malta, 2019; “Artistic Intelligence”, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, 2019; “Hot Blood”, White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, 2019; “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics”, New Museum, New York, 2019; “Chinese Whisper”, Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 2019; “WHO CARES”, New Galerie, Paris, 2019; the 12th Gwangju Biennale; Gwangju, 2018; “All I know is what’s on the internet”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2018; “.com/.cn”, co-presented by MoMA PS1 and K11 Art Foundation, 2017; “After Us”, co-presented by New Museum and K11 Art Foundation, 2017; “The New Normal—Art and China in 2017”, Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2017; “Secret Surface”, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016.
MadeIn Gallery
MadeIn Gallery was established in 2014 in Shanghai by the contemporary art creation and curating platform MadeIn Company, a corporate founded by international influential artist Xu Zhen.
MadeIn Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of outstanding artists and projects, spurring the development of contemporary culture and international exchanges. Since its creation, the gallery has organised numerous curated, high-quality solo and group exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, becoming a unique and important art platform. MadeIn Gallery excels in discovering and accompanying young talented artists in their career, as well as actively participating to international dialogues, in the Chinese and international contemporary art scene.
Collaborating artists: Chen Leng, Chen Ying, Ding Li, Elliot Dodd, Feng Mengbo, Gong Jian, He An, Li Hanwei, Liu Chengrui, Liu Wa, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Mo Shaolong, Payne Zhu, Pu Yingwei, Shang Liang, Shen Xin, Su Yu-Xin, Wang Sishun, Wang Newone, Xia Yunfei, Xu Dawei, XU ZHEN®, Yang Shen, Yang Yang, Zhang Lian, Zheng Yuan, Zhou Zixi, Zhu Yu.
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